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Saturday, February 2

Top 100 Movies of All Time

After years of deliberation and some consultations with the AFI list, I have decided to create my own list of the top 100 movies of all time. Criteria is a blend of objective film-making brilliance, exceptional acting, intriguing story and emotional investment. That said, many of these are personal favorites of mine. I would love to hear what you think.

1. It’s a Wonderful Life
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. The Graduate
4. The Godfather
5. Aliens
6. The Shining
7. Se7en
8. The Departed
9. Patton
10. Pulp Fiction
11. Braveheart
12. A Clockwork Orange
13. Apocalypse Now
14. No Country for Old Men
15. American History X
16. The Shawshank Redemption
17. Raging Bull
18. Fargo
19. Rear Window
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
21. Good Will Hunting
22. M.A.S.H.
23. Gladiator
24. The Usual Suspects
25. American Beauty
26. Citizen Kane
27. Casablanca
28. Schindler’s List
29. Saving Private Ryan
30. Brokeback Mountain
31. Taxi Driver
32. Forrest Gump
33. Seven Samurai
34. The Exorcist
35. On the Waterfront
36. Reservoir Dogs
37. The Sixth Sense
38. Scarface
39. Caddyshack
40. Raiders of the Lost Ark
41. A Streetcar Named Desire
42. Annie Hall
43. The Apartment
44. Crash
45. The Manchurian Candidate
46. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
47. Boogie Nights
48. Heat
49. Traffic
50. Mystic River
51. The Silence of the Lambs
52. There Will Be Blood
53. High Noon
54. Godfather 2
55. Primal Fear
56. Cool Hand Luke
57. Rebel Without a Cause
58. Fight Club
59. LA Confidential
60. Dazed and Confused
61. Enter the Dragon
62. Modern Times
63. Unforgiven
64. This is Spinal Tap
65. It Happened One Night
66. North by Northwest
67. 2001
68. Sin City
69. Tombstone
70. The Thing
71. Deer Hunter
72. Alien
73. Jaws
74. Rocky
75. Glory
76. Bonnie and Clyde
77. The Gold Rush
78. The Fellowship Of The Ring
79. Titanic
80. A History of Violence
81. Sideways
82. Duck Soup
83. To Kill A Mockingbird
84. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
85. Star Wars
86. The Big Lebowski
87. Trainspotting
88. Vertigo
89. The French Connection
90. All Quiet on the Western Front
91. Training Day
92. American Graffiti
93. Dog Day Afternoon
94. Psycho
95. Snatch
96. True Romance
97. Animal House
98. Million Dollar Baby
99. The Wall
100. Hoosiers

1 comment:

Dax said...

What the heck! Star Wars 85! We need to infuse your list with some Sci-Fi.

All 3 Star Wars films should be in your top 10. You need all 3 Lord of the rings films with Return of the King way up there. Pretty sure it won best picture that year.

T2: judgment day. Is one of the best pure action films of all time.

I like where you have Aliens over Alien. Space Marines kick ass and that movie scared the shit out of me.

The Matrix deserves a mention too.

As far as Rocky it should be in the list but Rocky IV is the best of the series. I MUST BREAK YOU! Then Rocky's speech at the end. " I came here not liking yous much and yous did not like mes much. If I can change….we all can change! " I am pretty sure that is the reason we won the cold war!

War Movies: you got to have Full Metal Jacket in there.

Comedy Movies: Office space!

Cartoon: (not gay) Lion King